My Crazy Obsession with the Gym

Hamstrings, calves, abs - 5×20 seated leg curls, 5×25 laying leg curls, 5×20 deadlifts (lower back was numb [??] from back day so didn’t do the full 20 on each..wimp), standing and seated calf extns 5×15 ea., weighted bench stepups 5×10ea leg, high/middle woodchops, hanging leg raises w/db’s, pushups, bench crunches w/plate, …. 40cardio: 10bike, 20arctrainer, 10running, 10elliptical…. a few mins of that was my warmup.

Felt weak, cooked my turkey in the oven instead of the grill - it sits in a refrigerator alll damn day and i never have time at work to heat it up… so the fat inside (yes amazingly there is fat in 93%lean) congealed up into some disgusting gelatinous mass that i bit into… got grossed out and threw the whole damn thing away. Not good but i have no tolerance for "gross" food, LOL.

Mon was back, triceps and abs… haven’t been on superpump250 for a few months now .. just changed yesterday to NOXplode - oh my goodness, it rocks. i plowed through my workout and probably went heavier and longer than i could without it (not to forget i had some redline a few hours earlier). It didn’t give the "jitteriness" that I experienced with superpump either. It helped even with running too, I just wanted to keep going but it was almost 11pm and sleep was too appealing. Only down side: I think it tases like crap, but so did superpump - too sweet/thick/salty…. I only take 1scp of each… but I will have to deal with it and smile

Not much else, starting posing class this saturday. Tonight will probably be hamstrings, shoulders, abs, and maybe some biceps thrown in. Supposed to have double cardio today… but I slept…. need to work on waking up when my alarm goes off and not just ignoring it. I’ll just do a double tonight - 40-50mins.

Thank you for the well wishing!!! Each show gets  easier and more "routine" to do… but stil intimidating to be mostly naked in front of people.

Never thought those words would be said out of my mouth. But… it’s fun and brutal.

Did the leg workout again, all giant sets. Felt like I was going to blow out my Rt. knee - did the close angled leg press and on the 3rd rep it suddenly felt like somebody had whacked a hammer under my kneecap. I soooooo changed foot positions to a wider stance… after stopping for a minute. Ouch. This is the same damn knee that keeps me from doing plyo (as frequently as I should) and lunging. It bothered me again on smith machine lunges…. I’m starting to break and I’m not even 25 yet

Did legs in the AM, plus 20min heavy on the arctrainer… then 40min in the afternoon - 10min run, 20min bike intervals, 10min elliptical. Could have kept going but had groceries to get - I am NOT getting caught without prepared food this week again. You know sometimes how you can’t do 10mins of something, then another time you could just be in some "zone" and go forever??? That was today.

Can’t decide if I want to do RedLine again for the next month or cycle off and try something different. Anything that works well, that has a different "formula" or chemical makeup? I guess it all has to do with what receptors the product binds to, to be active - and cycling off with something that uses totally different receptors. Also wanted to try Yohimbe - any good ones out there?

Have a great Sunday, it’s beautiful here

self: supersetting arms is NOT fun. the ‘pump’ is actually uncomfortable. front plate raises with arnold DB presses, incline DB curls with skullcrushers (can’t do laying w/ Db’s, hurts the bad shoulder), standing barbell press w/ lateral raises, rear delt presses, tri rope extns with standing barbell curl and tricep pushups…. ran 25mins, i’m happy with how i’m coming in so far, so no huge cardio increases yet. sat and sun are still doubles, no doubt son…. appointment at the plastic surgeon tomorrow AM, won’t happen before may (can’t take time off in 9wks) but if all things go well - the summer. they are one thing i can never change through lifting or cardio… i think i gave up anyhopes of having them by doing this actually - which i don’t regret. just a "pair" of assets i wish i always had…. soon.

self: supersetting arms is NOT fun. the ‘pump’ is actually uncomfortable. front plate raises with arnold DB presses, incline DB curls with skullcrushers (can’t do laying w/ Db’s, hurts the bad shoulder), standing barbell press w/ lateral raises, rear delt presses, tri rope extns with standing barbell curl and tricep pushups…. ran 25mins, i’m happy with how i’m coming in so far, so no huge cardio increases yet. sat and sun are still doubles, no doubt son…. appointment at the plastic surgeon tomorrow AM, won’t happen before may (can’t take time off in 9wks) but if all things go well - the summer. they are one thing i can never change through lifting or cardio… i think i gave up anyhopes of having them by doing this actually - which i don’t regret. just a "pair" of assets i wish i always had…. soon.

Did her leg workout and was straight-up humbled. Not easy, volume training kills, and I loved it.

• a. leg extns @ 50lb: 5×20
• a. laying leg press @ 70lbs: 5×20
• a. bodyweight squats: 5×20
• b. single leg smith squats @ 50lbs: 5×20
• b. DB lunges @ 25lbs: 5×20
• b. smith single leg deadlifts @ 25lbs: 5×10
• c. seated calf @ 130lbs: 4×20
• c. standing calf @ 70lbs: 5×10
• d. front squats @ bar + 50lbs: 3×20
• d. smith stationary lunges @ 40lbs: 3×15
• d. bench step-ups: 3×20

I modified some of it; walking lunges hurt my knee so they were made stationary. Plus I was wobbling like a fool… and my gym is equipment crowded….. I was sweaty drippy and it exhausted my legs. Did 20min am biking and 20min pm elliptical afterwards, too.

Not feeling 100% yet but whatever I had is on its way out. Saw my friend Nate, he’s as frustrated with the whole grad school admission process as I am. Can’t it just be an application and transcripts?

So I’ve been following the olympic lifting / pyramid strength-focused training plan for the past 5wks or so I was given…. it worked, I’m bigger, harder, stronger…. but bored! And I’m really, really starting to get annoyed with the gappy waist - tight butt/thigh jeans issue. SOO… I’ve decided to copy and use the workout of the fitness competitor of the week on here…. it’s very, very different than what I was using… try it for 2-3 weeks, then add back in the heavy until around 4-5wks out. Should keep a plateau far away.. just worried about my knee, it’s a lot of lunging and that never goes well here.

So far today: 20min biking intervals. Have her quad/calf workout to do in a few hours, then a 30min run session. I am slightly intimidated.

Missed posing yesterday - was sick. I hope I’m not getting the flu, on top of a cold and getting sick, it added in joint aches and chills. Damn timing.

Either have a bad cold or worse allergies. It blows.

Thurs: shoulders + cardio - DB shoulder combo (1/2 bottom-mid, 1/2 top-above, full lateral raises) 15lbs, 3×10-10-10; rear delt press: 60lb 3×12; front barbell raises 30lb 3×10; military press drop set 40lb-30lb-20lb  3×5 each weight; cable lateral raises 10lb x 3 sets of max (about 12) each side… 10min heavy bike resistance, 10min run, 10min elliptical. Not feeling too hot so today is probably going to be 30min of biking/incline walking… tomorrow is back to normal.

What a week of weird dreams. Waking up a lot because of them… doesn’t help my not feeling well.

I’m sick of eating already; my own fault because I’ve been doing the same damn diet since December. Also doesn’t help that most of the time I’m scarfing it down cold in between analyses at work… no time to heat and make it taste bettter. To hopefully "get over it" I’m doing a higher fat/protein and low low carb day today, then cheat meal tomorrow. After cheating (which has been a month??? since) I can’t wait to get back to my boring broccoli/cauliflower and turkey. Since this week was fairly crappy due to being sick I’m waiting till next week to add in 1/2C of carbs… workouts and cardio were a little week.

Happy to see though, that at 9 weeks I have what I had at 5-6wks last show. Still have some fat to remove, no kidding especially in the legs (need to find a good yohimbe supplement, was told that this will help lean out legs due to blocking beta receptors… suggestions welcome) but my upper body shreds fast. Abs/serratus: already can see the different oblique "sections" from the side and top 4 are very visible when flexed. Yay! I haven’t gotten measured or anything yet so I’m going on blind faith alone.

Time for cardio, have a great day.

20min am cardio on bike -  intervals sprint w/ heavy climbing… finished up back/tri’s/abs and 10min step mill in evening. Cranky. Good news is, bonuses and raises at work. Bad news… all the girls at golds and I are throwing men in the gym and lighting it on fire. Heehee.

Hope my mood improves tomorrow. My cardio needs it.

Mondays and Fridays are usually swell in my job-world; I schedule them to be. Today wasn’t, and kept getting worse: instrument malfunctions / problems / repair, someone was late making my solutions for me that I needed asap, training a new person, department and group meetings….. testing was cut by 2/3rds which gives me a superlong day to look forward to Thurs. Nevermind that it’s a female’s favorite time and I was super-emotional to begin with.

Food: good. Workout: barbell snatches 3×10, single-leg deadlift / rows (heavier barbells are easier): 40lb x 10 ea leg, 50lb x 10ea leg, 60lbs x 8 ea leg.; pullups 25 w/ 32lb assist, bar tricep pressdown on cables 35lb 3×10, DB rows 30lbs 4×10, 10min cardio plus 5 min extra for warmup. I was not focused. I told myself I’ll just make up the remaining back / tri exercises tomorrow AM at 6 with my normal cardio session…. can’t keep doing that… everyday counts….

Miss my LS. Had just started hanging out for about a month, things seemed to go really well, then went from hot to cold almost overnight. Says it’s work buttt… call it an icky feeling. I don’t think I did anything..? I shouldn’t worry about it and I’m pretty much "whatever-ing" it now, but… dated someone who did the similar and look what happened with another girl.

The gym wants to put up some pics of me from my last show to help promote the NABBA one coming in May. Since the photographer did I-Don’t-Know-What with the ones I had taken, all I have are some goofy ones of me mock-posing and smiling like a dehydrated flexed idiot into my camera. I don’t really want to be plastered on the wall there.

Saw a Popeyes commercial. It’s been 4 years - remember b/c I looooove their fries - since I had some. I could really go for it right now. MMM chicken strips.